To apply for consent for street trading:

1. Read the street trading local policy document [PDF] (54k)
   This contains the conditions under which you will have to operate, and the lists of prohibited and consent streets.
2. Choose a consent street on which to trade.
3. Seek planning permission on that consent street from our planning department, who will be able to inform you of the costs involved.
4. Once planning permission is granted a period of consultation will occur with external parties.  At this stage you must:
   Complete the street trading application form [PDF] (19k). 
   Provide 2 passport photographs.
   Provide evidence of public liability insurance.
   Send all these to the Environmental Health and Licensing Services along with the current annual fee.
5. If the proposal is refused then the annual fee for street trading consent, less an administrative fee of £10.00, will be refunded.

This process will take at least three months to complete.

Street traders need a consent for street trading.  Street trading means the selling, exposing for sale or offering for sale of any article (including a living thing) or the supplying or offering to supply any service in a street for gain or reward.

A street includes any road, footway or other area that is within seven metres of a road or footway and is not enclosed and to which the public have access without payment.

For further advice and guidance please visit the pages in this section or contact us using the information below.

Environmental Health and Licensing Services
Guildford Borough Council
Millmead House
Millmead
Guildford
Surrey
GU2 4BB

Tel: 01483 444371
Fax: 01483 444546
Email: environmentalhealth@guildford.gov.uk